There are a lot of things that the human brain did not evolve to handle, and a lot of them are things that happen when you have a lot of money. The brain evolved in an environment defined by struggle. There was rarely a chance for boredom or rest as our ancestors worked to obtain food and shelter from their environment. Being really, really rich makes your brain go weird. Fulfilling your desires takes no expenditure — anything you’ve ever wanted to do, no matter how expensive or difficult to arrange or even illegal it is, is right at your fingertips. The vast array of hedonistic pleasures available to you become boring, joyless. So you turn to darker things, like photoshopping your face onto the body of the Rock.
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As we are all by now very aware, Elon Musk absolutely loves to tweet. He cannot get enough of it. The wildest thrill he can imagine is pulling out his phone, opening up the Twitter app, and firing off a few hot ones alleging that a rescue diver is a pedophile. He loves tweets so much that Tesla made a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that requires him to sign off his tweets with the company if he believes they might impact the company’s stock price. (This happened to him because of how funny he finds the number 420.)
Much more benign than either of these things but still profoundly disturbing in its own way is a series of images Musk tweeted tonight, the provenance of which is unclear.
Yeah, I lift a little … pic.twitter.com/UAJdv8qSw1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2019
Did Musk find this somewhere online (a reverse image search didn’t surface anything for me) and post it without credit? Did he pay someone to photoshop his face onto the body of the Rock for him? Or, even more unlikely, did he do this himself?
All I know for certain is that these are the images that will haunt my subconscious as I try to sleep tonight, and I am not happy about it.
